High School Coaches are Asses

In case you haven't seen this, apparently a High School women's basketball coach in Texas has been fired for allowing his team to beat a school of "handicapped" girls 100-0.

I have very mixed feelings about this...first of all, and lets get this out of the way: the school is not for "handicapped" girls, at least not in the physical sense. And really not in the psychological sense, either. It has garnered a reputation for being especially good at helping kids with learning disabilities, such as ADD or dyslexia. So any story that you read that tries to heap on the sympathy for these girls is, in my opinion, a load of shit. It is true that the team is winless this season, and has been for the last four seasons, but you can't blame only being able to take seven shots in an entire game on a reading disorder. Shit, Jim Abbott only had one arm and he pitched a no-hitter.

But all that aside, it is still a pretty fucked up case. My high school in Pennsylvania was just large enough to force us to play in a division that included larger schools from Harrisburg, York, Gettysburg, etc...teams that were much, much, much, much, much, much, much better than us. I think our football team won 3 games the entirety of my high school career. I played soccer, and we would routinely get beat 8 or 9 to 0. But I rarely felt as though the other team was running up the score. Sure, they would get excited that they were playing shitty little Waynesboro Area Senior High and would score a pantload in the first half, but then the coach would settle them down, put in their shitty players, and then they would continue scoring at a much reduced rate. We sucked, but we realized it was our own fault - not theirs for having a bit of fun at our expense.

But 100-0?

How do you play four quarters of basketball and not allow the other team to score one point, while you are scoring a ton (especially for women's basketball), and not realize that you may be putting the pressure on a bit too hard? I mean, when I used to play my little brother when I was in shape and he was still like 10 or something, he would still score a point or two to my 21. You really have to be putting the pressure on to have the other team not be able to put up one point in four quarters.

So, when I read that the fired coach is completely unapologetic, and claims that his girls were playing within the spirit of the game, I have to respectfully disagree. Most high school coaches were players themselves at one point...and a great majority of them were failed players at some point. Otherwise, they probably wouldn't be coaching at a girl's school in the middle of Texas. I understand that most of them take their coaching responsibilities a bit too seriously. But it takes a special kind of ass-hat to not think that putting that hard of a beating on another team is within the "spirit of the game".

I dunno. Women's basketball sucks anyway.

A-Broad

While the northeast remains locked in an icy kung-fu death grip, this blogger soldiers humbly on, giving you narrow and one-sided opinions about two-day old stories that really no one should care about: Joe Torre basically called A-Rod out on everything everyone pretty much assumed about him anyway.

Which really doesn't make it any less hilarious. You have to love it when something comes to light from a credible source that basically confirms all of your suspicions about someone. So Alex Rodriguez had an uncontrollable obsession with Derek Jeter. So he tried to act like he was the shit to get everyone to like him. So no one liked him because of it. So his teammates and manager thought he was a pretty boy. Should we really hold that against him, or mock him incessantly without being there or truly understanding his point of view?

Absolutely.

/holds it against him
/mocks him incessantly

8-o!

So I'm obviously pumped about the Orioles locking up our premier player, Nick Markakis, to a six-year contract with a no-trade clause that will keep him off the damn free agent market for three years after he's eligible. And he seems happy about it - he actually made the claim that he can't wait to settle down here and that the "direction of the organization" was a key factor in his decision.

Awesome.

And then I saw the picture of Nicky at the press conference:


How awesome is that? He looks like a smart Jewish guy from a 70's drug movie, or like he could be one of the Greek's men from Season 2 of the Wire. Gotta love having the balls to rock that look for the biggest moment of his career so far.

Gow Ows!

Finally

Okay, okay, I know its been a long time since I've posted anything. But there hasn't been anything newsworthy to write about, and you know that if there is one thing this blog is about, it is posting only newsworthy, worthwhile items that are interesting to a wide and general audience.

Hence, I thought that today I would share with you the recently-announced rosters for the Chinese-Taipei World Baseball Classic Team:

CHINESE TAIPEI
PITCHERS: Hung-Wen Chen, Chi-Hung Cheng, Kai-Wen Cheng, Chien-Ming Chiang, Chieh Hsiao, Yu-Chi Hsiao, Po-Hsuan Keng, Chen Lee, We-Hua Lee, Yu-Cheng Liao, Ko-Chien Lin, Po-Yu Lin, Yueh-Ping Lin, Cheng-Long Lo, Chia-Jen Lo, Ching Lung Lo, Fu-Te Ni, Chia-Chun Tang, Chin-Hui Tsao, Sung-Wei Tseng.

CATCHERS: Chih-Kang Kao, Yi-Feng Kuo, Kun-Sheng Lin, Cheng-Ta Wu.

INFIELDERS: Chih-Hsien Chiang, Chih-Hsiang Huang, Kuo-Ching Kao, Yen-Wen Kuo, Bing-Yen Lee, Han Lin, Yi-Chuan Lin, Cheng-Ming Peng, Shen-Wei Wang, Chun-Shou Yang.

OUTFIELDERS: Chih-Yao Chan, Chih-Yuan Chen, Szu-Chi Chou, Cheng-Wei Huang, Cheng-Wei Huang, Tai-Chi Kuo, Ying-Chieh Liao, Che-Hsuan Lin, Wei-Chu Lin, Kuo Hui Lo, Wu-Hsiung Pan, Chuan-Chia Wang.

I would have never thought that Bing-Yen Lee would agree to play this spring. What a bitch. Updates to follow.